Difficulty recruiting workers
"Xiu'er, to be honest with you, I wanted to ask about your aunt when I had some free time these days, but my brother's wife fell into a ditch and became paralyzed. The family was in chaos, so my brother sent my nephew here. He was only two and a half years old..." Liu Shehong was excited but embarrassed. She had heard rumors that the Qin family was looking for someone to help fry twisted dough sticks. Her own children were grown up and there were elderly people taking care of them at home, so the family had agreed to go and ask when the children started school. Who knew that at this moment my brother's wife fell into a ditch while digging licorice, broke her waist and was admitted to the hospital. My parents on my mother's side died early, leaving only an eighty-year-old grandmother to look after the house. The two-year-old nephew was at the age where he could run around aimlessly, and the old lady couldn’t catch up with him, so she could only send him home first. She couldn't let her mother-in-law take care of her nephew, so she could only watch the good opportunity slip away.
"Every family has its own difficulties, sister-in-law, so you just take care of your own things first, and we can talk about it when you have free time later..." It is true that a hemp rope always breaks at the thinnest part, and misfortune always picks on the unfortunate people. Yang Xiu also shed a few tears.
After talking to Hu Yufeng about this, they both couldn't help but worry. Was there some kind of nemesis that had befallen their family? Why is it so hard to find someone?
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As the 15th day of the eighth lunar month approached, Li Lanhua suddenly came to Yang Xiu to ask for advice: "What do you think about me making some mooncakes and selling them?"
Ever since she earned dozens of yuan in pocket money by selling rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, Li Lanhua would make snacks to sell on weekends and market days. Sometimes it’s meatballs, sometimes it’s oven-cooked food, just two small baskets, the price is not expensive, and I can make about ten to twenty yuan each time.
It didn't interfere with the housework, and she didn't have to ask Qin Wenzhen for money to buy some small items. Occasionally, on a whim, she would buy some instant noodles and snacks like Seven Wolves for the three children. The children took turns following her to set up the stall and not only saw the world, but also realized how hard it was to make money. When they got home, they helped her without being told. Anyway, Qin Wenzhen saw all the changes and never said anything. Occasionally, she would come to help when she was too busy. She is very content with this little life full of hope.
How about it? Of course. Yang Xiu was very supportive. In the past three months, she had discovered that Li Lanhua had some talent in making snacks. Since she had the talent, it certainly shouldn't be wasted.
Seeing Yang Xiu's affirmation, Li Lanhua said happily: "I knew it was right to find you, so I'll go and give it a try..."
"Hey sister-in-law..." Yang Xiu called Li Lanhua and gestured, "My mother's family uses a baking pan for making mooncakes. Both sides are made of iron. When baking, the pan is buried in ashes. The mooncakes baked in this way are golden and crispy on both sides. If you plan to make it often, why don't you go to the market to see if there is one for sale?"
Li Lanhua's eyes lit up, and she instantly thought of the trick: "Wouldn't it be possible to bake snacks?"
Yang Xiu smiled and shook her head: "I don't know about that. We have never made snacks at home, but my grandma used it to bake pancakes, and they were delicious..."
Li Lanhua thanked Yang Xiu happily, greeted Xizi who had just entered the room, and went out excitedly.
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"What good thing happened to you, sister-in-law? Why are you so happy?"
Isn't it a good thing to be able to make money? Looking at the decisive Li Lanhua, Yang Xiu was happy from the bottom of his heart. It turns out that people still need to have money on them. Once they have money, they will be full of energy.
She told this to Xizi, who laughed and said, "You just worry too much. Look at me, I am happy even though I don't have money."
That's because you are heartless. You can be so happy because you have a hard-working mother-in-law supporting you and you don't care about the financial situation of your family at all. If my aunt falls ill, what do you think will happen to the whole family?
But looking at the smiling Xizi, Yang Xiu felt a little uncertain: when the burden of the family falls on her alone, she might just overturn the burden and go away on her own!
Forget it, forget it. I don’t want to think about these irrelevant things. Let’s just focus on the task at hand.
After dinner, Hu Yufeng and Yang Xiu got together again and discussed something with their heads down.
Qin Shengtian couldn't help shaking his head as he looked at the mysterious relationship between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. It's just finding someone, but you make it more exaggerated than getting married. If he wants, just let whoever is willing come. If not, we can send him away and find someone else. Why are you picking on the hygiene and the personality? That would be fine, but you are also picking on the mother-in-law. So much so that Mancang's wife secretly came to him and made him dare not answer!
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August 13th was a sunny day with clear skies and nice weather.
The magpies on the two big poplar trees outside Lao Qin's yard also poked their heads out and chirped excitedly.
Hu Yufeng was already numb. These two chatterboxes kept chattering regardless of whether anyone came or not. But the old lady firmly believed that something good would happen today. That would be best!
Because it is the last market before Mid-Autumn Festival, there are quite a lot of people going today. Yang Xiu and Hu Yufeng, the old partners, Xizi, Qin Yu and Qin Shu who were there to join in the fun, Li Lanhua and Qin Qian, the mother and daughter who set up stalls, and Chen Xiu Lian who went to the market.
A group of people were crowded in the truck bed, the children were holding on to the backrests to enjoy the wind and laughing from time to time, and the adults were also gossiping loudly.
Chen Xiulian's opinion of Li Lanhua changed slightly. Of course, this might also be due to the comparison with the cruel Liu Rong. She asked Li Lanhua calmly, "Are the mooncakes you're selling today the same kind you made yesterday?"
"Yes, I roasted it overnight." Li Lanhua nodded with a smile.
Li Lanhua is a decent person and usually does things without leaving any room for others to hold against her. So every time I cook something delicious, I send my son to give a portion to my mother-in-law first. It’s up to her to eat it or not, as it’s a token of her love.
Yang Xiu mentioned the roasting pan before, and she went back and mentioned it to her husband. I don’t know where Qin Wenzhen found an old one. He couldn’t control the temperature at the beginning, but after trying a few more times, the mooncake he baked was indeed crispy and crumbly. At that time, I sent a few children to deliver one copy to each of the three families.
Chen Xiulian nodded her head in affirmation when she heard this: "I tasted it and it is indeed delicious. Business must be good today..."
Li Lanhua smiled brightly: "Then I'll borrow your good words..."
Chen Xiulian looked at her daughter-in-law's smiling face and was dazed for a moment. Such a bright look is indeed much more pleasing to the eye than the lifeless look before.
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These days, apart from visiting relatives and friends, the only place for people to relax and unwind is at the market. I can't even think about going to the county or city. As for rural people, unless there is something absolutely necessary, who would be willing to travel a long way and spend a few dollars on car fare just to take a stroll? So the best place is the big market in the town.
You don't have to buy anything when you go to the market, but just listening to the hawkers and watching the people around can make you happy. Especially now, the summer grain has already been stored in the warehouse, and the autumn grain must be harvested after the 15th, so the period in between is relatively less busy. If we don’t seize this opportunity to take a walk and recharge our batteries, how can we prepare for the upcoming autumn harvest? So today's market is particularly lively.
It’s good to be lively, as it means a large flow of people. A large flow of people means fast sales, which makes stall owners like Hu Yufeng happy. So as soon as they got off the car, they all split up tacitly, some setting up stalls and some parking the car.
Sending Xizi to look after the two children, while Yang Xiu was kneading the dough, Hu Yufeng quickly spread out the bags of fried dough twists, then put on a warm smile and began to sell them skillfully.
Chen Xiulian, who was watching the whole scene, couldn't help but remain silent. She seldom goes to the market, and even when she does she just takes a quick glance and walks away, so she has rarely seen her sisters-in-law setting up stalls. I feel very lonely at this moment. She was still thinking about how to fight among herself and how to suppress others, while her opponent had quietly upgraded.
This feeling was particularly profound when I saw the crowds pouring into the stall like a tide. She quietly stepped out and slowly walked to her daughter-in-law's stall. The daughter-in-law who seemed dull and rigid in her eyes now smiled like a flower, and her mouth was as sweet as honey, making the guests smile happily. Even the moody second granddaughter greeted people with a smile, and her two little hands were packing and collecting money in an orderly manner.
Chen Xiulian was a little confused for a moment. How come the two families seemed to have agreed to swim forward together, but forgot to tell her, leaving her family spinning in circles?
Isn't she here to have fun today? Why didn't I find any happiness? Instead, I felt aggrieved and confused.
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Hu Yufeng had no idea that her sister-in-law was so traumatized that she was questioning her life, while she was happily selling goods.
Xizi took the two children for a walk and came back without buying anything. The happy Hu Yufeng frowned as she looked at her grandson who had nothing in his hands. She waved to Xizi to take Yang Xiu's place, handed the work in her hands to Yang Xiu, and then took her lovely grandson to buy things.
Yang Xiu shook his head helplessly. Everything about my mother-in-law is good now, except that she spoils the children a little too much. She had talked about this with her husband before, and they didn't understand the reason for the sudden change in her mother-in-law's attitude, so they could only go along with her and let her be!
Throwing away his thoughts, Yang Xiu put on the same smiling face and started to greet the guests.
She was busy until one o'clock, when there were fewer people on the street. She finally breathed a sigh of relief and had time to look at the small items her mother-in-law had bought for the two children.
Things like hairpins, tin frogs, snacks, instant noodles... anyway, it's just a big bag of odds and ends.
Yang Xiu looked at the two little guys disapprovingly: "Why did you ask your grandma for so much again?"
Hu Yufeng sent the child aside: "I bought it for you. You haven't been to the market for half a year, and now you're here..."
Okay, okay, now you're here... This sentence is really like a brick, you can move it wherever your mother-in-law is needed.
They were busy until the afternoon, and as they were packing up their stall, they heard a female voice saying, "Are you Xiu'er from Aunt Runling's family?"
Yang Xiu looked up suddenly and saw a young woman about 30 years old looking at her anxiously with a cautious smile on her face.
"Huizi, you are Huizi, right? I'm Xiu'er." Yang Xiu was so excited that she couldn't express it in words. How could she understand that a person whose life or death was uncertain appeared in front of her alive? If she wasn't afraid of scaring Huizi, she would have wanted to go up and hug him.
It took a long time to suppress the excitement in his heart. Yang Xiu straightened his face and asked with concern, "Are you okay now?" After asking, he quickly explained, "I heard from my mother that your health...did you have the surgery?"
Keiko smiled and nodded.
Hu Yufeng raised her eyebrows, packed up her things and came over to greet Huizi. Yang Xiu quickly introduced, "My mother-in-law..."
Huizi greeted Hu Yufeng a little nervously, moved uneasily, and finally mustered up the courage to say, "I heard from Aunt Runling that your family is hiring, so I want to ask if you are still hiring now?"
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